RUAG Aviation, the OEM of the
Dornier 228, has renewed an aircraft sustainment contract with the Netherlands
Coastguard. The agreement,
which takes effect in May 2018, comprises full maintenance services for two
Dornier 228-212 special mission aircraft.
The signing of the aircraft
sustainment contract between Dornier 228 OEM, RUAG Aviation, located at
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and the Netherlands Coastguard ensures the specialist
support for the two Dornier 228-212 remains continuous since 2007 and now
extends over three additional years. On hand for the signing were Captain RNL
Navy Ronald Blok, Director of the Netherlands Coastguard, and Volker Wallrodt,
Senior Vice President Business Jets, Dornier 228 & Components, RUAG Aviation.
“Reliability is essential
to our sustainment requirements. Our mission schedules are rigorous, our flight
plans demanding and availability must be guaranteed twenty-four hours a day,”
explains Captain Ronald Blok.
“We are confident that RUAG will continue to provide the prompt and highly
skilled support we need and have come to expect,” he says.
“We are pleased to have
earned and retained the trust of the Netherlands Coastguard for the sustainment
of their special mission aircraft,” said
Volker Wallrodt. “This new
agreement confirms our organization’s reliability as a maintenance, technical
and material support provider for the Dornier 228.”
Each of the two Netherlands
Coastguard Dornier 228-212 special mission aircraft are equipped with
state-of-the-art communications technology, radar for the detection of
environmental pollution and an infrared camera system enabling mission-readiness
under all conditions. The maritime patrol aircraft are deployed to fulfill the
wide spectrum of coast guard tasks, including search-and-rescue, disaster and
incident control, environmental supervision and border surveillance. Throughout
the year, one aircraft and its crew are on standby for deployment above the
North Sea, or elsewhere in Europe, twenty-four hours a day.
“We are in a unique position to
offer comprehensive and integrated support services to the Netherlands
Coastguard, as well as to all Dornier 228 operators,” explains Volker Wallrodt
further. In fact, RUAG Aviation is an EASA approved Part 21J Design Organization
(DOA) and, at the same time, is also the Dornier 228 Type Certificate (TC)
holder. “Our team of customer support, engineering and technical specialists
apply their thorough Dornier 228 knowledge to provide mission-adaptable
solutions, upgrades and full life cycle support services.”
RUAG Aviation is supported by
partner Jet Support B.V., at Schiphol-Oost. Their proximity to the Netherlands
Coastguard station ensures the group’s aircraft availability requirements are
promptly met. Aircraft maintenance as well as Continuing Airworthiness
Management (CAM) are included in the subcontract signed by Volker Wallrodt and
Ton van Deursen, Managing Director, Jet Support. Together both companies are
responsible for the overall maintenance of the two aircraft and have jointly
provided these required services since 2007. |